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Edward Asner
John Ratzenberger
Paul Eiding
Christopher Plummer
Delroy Lindo
Jordan Nagai

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A 78-year-old man sets out to fulfill his dream of seeing the wilds of South America by tying thousands of balloons to his home and floating down. What he didn't count on was another eager, 8-year-old explorer to hitch a ride with him.

01/22/2010 (1 of 1 found this helpful)

Here We Are, Ellie

A beautifully-told human story of the lengths to which one will go to find solace in sorrow, "Up" is Pixar's second best film (second only to the brilliant and unprecedented "Wall-E") and will surely go down in history as a classic animated picture. Though it will not be, I believe firmly that it should be up for best picture this year, and it will surely lose Best Animated Feature to "The Fantastic Mr. Fox," and even still, this movie had me at once in tears of joy and sorrow. A great movie. Valuable in every way.

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4/4 

01/01/2010 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

It's Okay.

"Up" is about an elderly man and young boy who travel to South America and have a series of adventures. It's a consistently funny film, but virtually every character here is ridiculously contrived and understood entirely in one dimensional terms. The old man lost his wife, the wife lost her child, the young boy lost his father, the talking dog is bullied by other dogs, the giant bird is separated from its offspring...every single character in this film is designed to quickly illicit unearned sentiment. All the film's emotions are applied with surgical precision, cynically calibrated to get an effect out of us, to return us to a supposedly desirable childlike state of innocence.

Pixar's last film, "WALL-E", was no different. I counted at least 4 "death scenes" in that picture, Pixar suc...

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2/4 

12/01/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Up Review

Here's the common process of how Pixar movies have been going as of late: You see the first details and think, "How's this going to be a decent movie?", then you see the more detailed trailers and you think, "Huh, this looks pretty interesting. Let's give this a shot.", then you go out to see the movie, and then it ends up being one of the best movies you'll see that year. That's basically what happened with Up.

Yeah, I just got around to seeing Up at long last, and it followed the process I mentioned and as a result brings out Pixars 10th great contribution to computer animated films (at least if you liked Cars).

The story plays out like this, a 78-year-old man named Carl Fredricksen (Ed Asner) is out to fulfill his lifelong dream to travel to Paradise Falls in South America. What ...

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4/4